AMD recently released Radeon HD 6950 / 6970 GPUs for their new graphics line-ups. These cards are targeted at mainstream performance level when compared to similar offerings from NVIDIA. The new cards are expected to offer higher performance per watt while due to the smaller 40nm production process.
AMD is moving to take Nvidia head-on with the release of dual GPU Radeon HD 6990 (codenamed Antilles) cards. According to some leaked slides, the new flagship graphics card from AMD shows some striking performance numbers for both graphics and compute capabilities.
Nvidia PhysX is a leading technology of the graphics giant which accelerates physics and other computational tasks on the GPU. By default, all the new Nvidia graphics cards support PhysX. Recently, Nvidia has disabled the Physics acceleration on its GPUs when an ATI graphics card is used for rendering graphics.
Apple has been angry with Nvidia for some time now because of the prolonged GPU failures in Mac Computers and iMacs. Thus, Apple has finally decided to shift to ATI Radeon 4000 based graphics chips for their upcoming Mac Pro and iMac computers. The ATI series will replace Nvidia Geforce 9400 based graphics chips.
AMD has recently introduced ATI Radeon HD 4770, one of the best mainstream graphics card. It offers solid performance in sub $100 category, and should give comparative performance with High-End cards. Along with this, AMD also launched a $70 Athlon 7850 X2 Black Edition, which gives enough performance to drive High-End gaming and other processing […]
The Laptop gaming market is certainly hot these days with both the graphics giants, AMD/ATI and Nvidia moving in with their best. AMD/ATI recently announced the release their fifth generation Graphics chips (GPUs) made on 40nm technology for the mainstream Mobile Market.
ATI released Moblility Radeon 4870 X2 recently, taking the crown of extreme notebook gaming platform from Nvidia. The Card is expected to produce better results then the Nvidia’s current top of the line Geforce 9800M GTX SLI. Notebooks based on this new card are beginning to be available.